Some Paleo Uniface Tools

[Garscale]

I promised to dig out a few uniface tools so here we go. No glamor but good study items. I'll add as I get time.

First one is a big white strike with retouch all around. A closer look at a more recent ding shows it is actual a creamy caramel chert under the that heavy patina.

 

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[uniface]

Way cool. But I especially like the blocky ones, like this one from the Phil Stratton Cumberland (several thousand years before Clovis) site in Kentucky.

 

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A question now. Most of those look like they're made of the Edwards chert imported by Paleo folk rather than the local cobble cherts used in the archaic & later times. Is that the case with yours ?

 

[Garscale]

A question now. Most of those look like they're made of the Edwards chert imported by Paleo folk rather than the local cobble cherts used in the archaic & later times. Is that the case with yours ?

Absolutely. All are variations of Edward's. Sources 150 to 250 Miles away. Points follow the same pattern. Gault did a lithic laser analysis on my SS points and if I remember right there were 11 different types of chert .

The long skinny overshot is quartzite

 

[Garscale]

One more. This one is odd. Quality work on the top side but flat on the other. Almost like a super thick flute flake. Nice nose scraper on it.

If you broke this brown tool in half I'm pretty sure you would expose Georgetown Blue chert. You can see it through the patina in spots.